Gas-burner.



No. 761,924. 'PATENTED JUNE 7, 1904.

- J. 0. SIMMS & G. H. HUSTON.

GAS BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 31,1903.

N0 MODEL.

fining) Wllllllllllllllll UNITED STATES Patented. June '7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES CLAY SIMMS AND GEORGE H. HUSTON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO;

SAID SIMMS ASSIGNOR TO SAID HUSTON.

GAS-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,924, dated June *7, 1904.

Serial No. 141,376. (No model.)

T all Wham it y 607M677?! opening bounded'by the crimped portions E, Be it known that we, JAMEsCLAY SIMMs and so that as said flange B is moved up or down GEORGE H. HUs'roN, of Cincinnati, in the a predetermined distance contact is made with county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, (whose the said crimped portions to arrest the move- 5 post-office address is Cincinnati, Ohio,) have ment of thesaid flange and its thimble. The invented a certain new and useful Improveupper end of the nipple terminates in a needlement in Gas-Burners, of which the following valve 0", which coacts with a valve-seat b of is a specification. the thimble, thereby affording means for regu- Our invention consists ofagas-burner witha lating the flow of the gas therethrough. It 5 IO combination needle-valve and knurled thumbis our purpose to have the relation of the screw so adjusted as to extend through crimped flange B and the crimped portion E such that tubing and regulate the needle-valve, which the valve-seat Z) cannot be seated on the valve regulates the flow of gas to a high or low 0'; butthere remains alwaysasmalldischargepressure by allowing the thumb-screw to screw opening which will support a flame, so that 5 upward and downward to edge of crimp in in turning on the light a match need not be tubing. used, as there will always be a small flame at The invention has for its object to provide the discharge end of the thimble. crimped tubing which when crimped in the We claim upper crimp will prevent the thumb-screw 1. In agas-burner, a tube having openings 20 from screwing off the needle-valve entirely with the edges thereof turned in to form shouland the lower crimp preventing the needleders, a gas-supply member in the end of the valve from closing up entirely and allowing tube having a nipple with a needle-valve on small flow of gas to keep burner continuously its end, a thimble threaded on the nipple and burning, thereby acting as a by-pass until the having an opening controlled by the needle- 5 5 gas is entirely shut ofl. valve, and a flange on the thimble having its Figure 1 is aview in elevation of the burner. periphery projecting through the openings of Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof. the tube, substantially as described. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the valve. 2. In a gas-burner, a tube having openings The burner comprises in its construction a with inturned edges, a needle-valve for con- 7 3 tube A, having air-inlet openings D for the trolling the flow into the tube, a thimble copurpose of admitting air to be mixed with the acting with the valve, having a flange projectgas. The tube is also provided with openings ing through the openings of the tube and limat each side, the walls of said openings being ited in its movement by the inturnededges of erimped or turned in, as shown at E, to form the tube. 35 stops for the gas-regulating device to be here- In witness whereof we have affixed our siginafter referred to. A gas-supply member natures in the presence of two witnesses. C is internally threaded to be attached to a J. CLAY SIMMS. gas-fixture," and this gas-supply member has GEORGE 'H. HUSTON. a nipple 0,'which is externally threaded to Witnesses: 4 receive the thimble b. The thimble is pro- MILLARD F. ROEBLING,

vided with a flange B, which is moved in the J ULIUs SPANGENBERG. 

